Asia

“We have stopped the spread of the petroleum products,” the spokeswoman for the taskforce in charge of the accident clean-up said. “They are contained in all directions, they are not...

Thousands of Hong Kongers defied a police ban Thursday to gather in the city’s Victoria Park and mark the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The rally, which has...

Unemployment rate rose to a record high of 17.7% in April, with the number of jobless Filipinos surging to 7.3 million as lockdowns to contain the coronavirus outbreak shut businesses....

KHAO YAI, Thailand — For as long as the elephants could remember — and that is a long time — the path to the river snaked down the hillside through...

President Donald Trump’s promise that his phase one trade deal with China would provide a $36.5 billion election-year bonanza for his rural base was always a stretch. Now it looks...

Chanting slogans like “Liberate Hong Kong,” thousands of people in Hong Kong flouted a police ban on Thursday as they gathered to memorialize the Tiananmen Square massacre, a striking display...

Since World War II, more American soldiers have perished in East Asia than anywhere else. The twin imperatives of containing Communism and maintaining the regional balance of power drew U.S....

In Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, hundreds of people crowd in front of a private clinic and try to push their way toward the entrance. Many of them are infected with COVID-19...

MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is expected to sign sweeping antiterrorism legislation that critics said on Thursday would allow the authorities to classify government opponents as terrorists...

A British lawmaker has written to HSBC Holdings Plc’s chief executive, saying the global lender’s decision to back Beijing on its proposed security laws for Hong Kong is causing alarm....